| Kevin Campbell | |
| Constituency Mp: | Alliance party list |
| Parliament: | New Zealand |
| Term Start: | 1999 |
| Term End: | 2002 |
| Birth Place: | Addington |
| Birthname: | Kevin Thomas Campbell |
| Party: | Alliance |
| Spouse: | Kathryn |
| Profession: | Police officer Solicitor |
Kevin Thomas Campbell is a former New Zealand member of parliament for the Alliance, and the party's leader outside of Parliament at its deregistration in May 2015.
Campbell worked as a milkman, before becoming a police officer. He trained to be a Catholic priest at Holy Name Seminary and Holy Cross College. However he was not ordained. Prior to entering Parliament he qualified as a Barrister and Solicitor and practiced in criminal law.[1]
Campbell was the Alliance candidate for the 1998 Taranaki-King Country by-election, and claimed to have "played some small part in bringing about the closer working relationship between Labour and the Alliance as a result of that by-election."[2]
He was a member of the Alliance, having been elected to Parliament as a list MP in the 1999 election, where he stood in the electorate and was placed tenth on the Alliance list.[3] [4]
In April 2002, the Alliance party split[5] between a moderate faction and a leftist faction, with Campbell remaining with the Alliance as part of the latter. He initially committed to appearing on the Alliance's party list but withdrew on 11 June 2002.[6] The party lost representation due to not reaching the 5% vote threshold.[7] [8] [9]
Since leaving Parliament Campbell has worked as a Supervising Solicitor at Community Law Canterbury.[1] Campbell ran again as an Alliance candidate in the electorate, seeking to be the replacement for out-going MP Jim Anderton but lost, coming fourth, to Megan Woods, a former member of the Alliance & Progressive parties standing on a Labour ticket.[10]
As of the 2011 election Campbell returned to being an active participant in the Alliance Party and currently sits as the Co-leader of the Party.